http://www.feedbooks.com/discover/list/authors.atom?category=FBFIC022000&lang=en&letter=MMystery & Detective2015-03-03T20:15:42Zhttp://assets3.feedbooks.net/images/favicon.ico?t=1425398215Feedbookshttp://www.feedbooks.comsupport@feedbooks.zendesk.com25220The Adventures of Sherlock Holmeshttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/1421Arthur Conan Doylehttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/12007-07-19T11:36:30Z2014-11-02T19:59:49Zen1892The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget.
These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as singl...104,333 wordshttp://gutenberg.orgThis work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmeshttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/58Arthur Conan Doylehttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/12006-12-29T16:49:57Z2014-11-02T19:59:48Zen1893The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.87,520 wordshttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/834This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.The Mysterious Affair at Styleshttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/2058Agatha Christiehttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/2872007-12-19T17:47:57Z2015-01-29T14:28:32Zen1920In her first published mystery, Agatha Christie introduces readers to the heroic detective, Hercule Poirot. This is a classic murder mystery set in the outskirts of Essex. The victim is the wealthy mistress of Styles Court. The list of suspects is...56,431 wordshttp://gutenberg.orgThis work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only.The Hound of the Baskervilleshttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/1Arthur Conan Doylehttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/12006-10-30T16:40:14Z2014-12-22T17:07:15Zen1902The rich landowner Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the park of his manor surrounded by the grim moor of Dartmoor, in the county of Devon. His death seems to have been caused by a heart attack, but the victim's best friend, Dr. Mortimer, i...59,046 wordsThis work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.The Black Cathttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/759Edgar Allan Poehttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/162007-04-12T15:18:17Z2015-01-15T13:32:48Zen1842"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". In both,...3,846 wordshttp://en.wikisource.orgThe Casebook of Sherlock Holmeshttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/66Arthur Conan Doylehttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/12006-12-29T19:15:14Z2014-11-02T19:59:49Zen1923The last twelve stories written about Holmes and Watson, these tales reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written. Some of the sharpest turns of wit in English literature are contrasted by dark images of psychological tr...83,179 wordsWikisourceThis work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.The Murders in the Rue Morguehttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/795Edgar Allan Poehttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/162007-04-13T12:17:43Z2015-01-30T09:58:34Zen1841"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". Similar works predate Poe's st...13,679 wordshttp://en.wikisource.orgThe Return of Sherlock Holmeshttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/63Arthur Conan Doylehttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/12006-12-29T17:21:26Z2014-11-02T19:59:48Zen1905The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The book was first published on March 7, 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd and in a Colonial edition by Longmans. 30,...112,676 wordsWikisourceThis work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.The Phantom of the Operahttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/3403Gaston Lerouxhttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/1352008-11-20T18:02:41Z2015-01-30T09:35:20Zen1910The story of a man named Erik, an eccentric, physically deformed genius who terrorizes the Opera Garnier in Paris. He builds his home beneath it and takes the love of his life, a beautiful soprano, under his wing.85,149 wordshttp://www.gutenberg.orgThis work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.A Study in Scarlethttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/57Arthur Conan Doylehttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/12006-12-29T16:33:07Z2014-12-07T16:44:03Zen1887A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which was first published in 1887. It is the first story to feature the character of Sherlock Holmes, who would later become one of the most famous and iconic liter...43,385 wordsWikisourceThis work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.The Sign of the Fourhttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/2Arthur Conan Doylehttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/12006-10-30T16:56:59Z2014-12-07T16:46:12Zen1890First published in 1890, The Sign of Four is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second book starring legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. The story is complex, involving a secret between four ex-cons from India and a hidden treasure. More complex than the f...43,217 wordsThis work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.The Most Dangerous Gamehttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/3638Richard Connellhttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/9302009-02-02T21:20:02Z2015-01-12T09:39:42Zen1924"The Most Dangerous Game" features as its main character a big-game hunter from New York, who becomes shipwrecked on an isolated island in the Caribbean, and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat.
The story is an inversion of the big-game hunting ...7,948 wordsThis work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50.The Woman in Whitehttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/3696Wilkie Collinshttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/382009-02-26T19:25:13Z2014-06-09T17:07:57Zen1860The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859–1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and f...244,492 wordswww.gutenberg.orgThe Secret Adversaryhttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/2059Agatha Christiehttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/2872007-12-19T17:57:35Z2013-01-29T23:02:12Zen1922Hiring themselves out as “young adventurers willing to do anything” is a smart move for Tommy and Tuppence. All Tuppence has to do is take an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris and pose as someone named Jane Finn. But with the job comes a threat to h...75,029 wordshttp://gutenberg.orgThis work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only.The Valley of Fearhttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/64Arthur Conan Doylehttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/12006-12-29T18:48:02Z2014-12-07T16:46:24Zen1915The plot of the novel is based very loosely on the real-life activities of the Molly Maguires and, particularly, of Pinkerton agent James McParland.
The novel is divided into two parts: in the first, Holmes investigates an apparent murder and disc...57,400 wordsWikisourceThis work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.His Last Bowhttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/65Arthur Conan Doylehttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/12006-12-29T19:00:34Z2014-11-02T19:59:48Zen1917His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in American editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the title of one of the stories in that collection. Originally published in 1917, it contains the various Holmes stories p...67,683 wordsWikisourceThis work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.The Man Who Knew Too Muchhttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/6718Gilbert Keith Chestertonhttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/9532013-04-09T08:49:46Z2014-02-25T15:25:06Zen1922This contains the first 8 of the 12 stories in the published book The Man Who Knew Too Much and Other Stories. In these 8 detective thrillers, the main protagonist is Horne Fisher. (The omitted four are individual stories with separate heroes/det...59,658 wordsProject Gutenberg Australia http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/c00026.htmlAttribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (cc by-nc-sa)An Antarctic Mysteryhttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/3947Jules Vernehttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/192009-05-26T22:57:13Z2014-01-24T14:09:10Zen1899A sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym.78,310 wordshttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10339Masterpieces of Mystery: Riddle Storieshttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/6679Joseph Lewis Frenchhttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/21552013-03-18T10:28:45Z2013-06-12T16:07:49Zen1922Edited by Joseph Lewis French, this collection of 9 riddle stories includes "The Mysterious Card" and its sequel by Cleveland Moffett, "The Oblong Box" by Poe, "A Terribly Strange Bed" by Wilkie Collins, "The Lost Room" by Fitz-James O'Brien and o...62,575 wordsProject Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29704Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (cc by-nc-sa)The Moonstonehttp://www.feedbooks.com/book/3311Wilkie Collinshttp://www.feedbooks.com/author/382008-11-05T15:11:23Z2014-01-27T13:32:45Zen1868Widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels, The Moonstone tells of the events surrounding the disappearance of a mysterious (and cursed) yellow diamond. T. S. Eliot called it 'the first, the longest, and the best of...194,584 wordshttp://www.gutenberg.org